Posted by Eric K. on January 17, 2001 at 05:27:10 PM EST:
In Reply to: Vérité au-delà de la Manche posted by Eric K. on January 17, 2001 at 03:52:53 PM EST:
Revelations du Daily Telegraph: plusieurs bataillons de la legion en Algerie
Dans un article publie le samedi 06 juin 1998 dans le «Daily Telegraph» (Grande-Bretagne), le journaliste Peter Philip revele que dans le cadre du renforcement des mesures de securite pour le «Mondial 98», les autorites francaises ont fait appel a plusieurs bataillons de la legion ayant le quartier general en Algerie !
Dans cet article (lire ci-dessous), ces legionnaires sont decrits comme des soldats «prets a commettre un bain de sang en France meme». Ils ont violemment reagi contre des touristes qui les ont pris en photo a leur arrivee en France.
On est en droit de de se poser la question de savoir si ces soldats tristement celebres ne sont pas responsables des massacres d'innocents en Algerie ?!
Quant aux generaux d'Alger, issus dans leur quasi-totalite des rangs de l'armee coloniale francaise, on comprend mieux leur abnegation a refuser toute commission d'enquete sur es massacres d'innocents en Algerie. Ceci est d'autant plus revoltant qu'ils invoquent a cette fin le «principe de non-ingerence»: une hypocrisie que met a nu cette revelation qui s'inscrit parmi d'autres ( agents des services secrets transfuges, tests francais d'armes nucleaires et chimiques en Algerie, etc...)
French bolster their defence, By Robert Philip
It is a sad reflection on the world in which we live that the most important members of the cast of France'98 will not the actual stage performers, but those charged with the task of keeping the peace among the audience.
Anyone causing a ruckus will not be discreetly ushered out by a gendarme of the Dixon of Dock Green school of bobbies, but can expect to be baton-wipped into submission by the notorious hard-men of the Compagnies Republicaines de Securite (CRS) whose rule-of-law and medieval skills were laid down in Vietnam and during the student riots of the Sixties; even higher security will be afforded the players and officials of the 32-competing teams, who will be guarded day and night by the elite RAID anti-terrorist unit wearing balaclavas to conceal their identity.
Most ominiously of all, the battalions of the Legion Etrangre flew into Paris last weekend from their headquarters in Algeria resplendant in full-combat gear whereupon they brutally confiscated the cameras of a number of tourists unwise enough to attempt to record their arrival at Charles de Gaulle airport as a happy-snap memento of their visit to the French capital. Unlike their romantic Beau Geste/Desert Song image, the rank and file of the French Foreign Legion are hardened criminals on the run from justice in their own lands.
"They resent being reduced to the role of policemen at the World Cup," explains Parisian journalist Jean-Claude Ariel, "they are ruthless mercenaries whose job is war. There is great anger in France that they will be heavily involved in what is supposed to be a sporting carnival. These are not the type of men you should ask for directions to the nearest lavatory. They have been placed on special alert in case the English and Tunisian supporters riot on the beach at Marseilles. If there is any trouble, it could develop into a bloodbath." And if any British soccer fans should happen to bump into a legionnaire? "Avoid eye contact if possible, do not take photographs - remember, in all probability they are wanted by the police - do not make any threatening gestures, do not even smile."
Be warned, the French Foreign Legion do not play friendlies."
Daily Telegraph, Saturday 6 June 1998.
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